Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sermons

Sermons preached in a context, but written for people of all sorts and conditions.

  • The challenge of loving like Jesus isn’t that we’ll do it wrong. It’s that we think it depends on our being a good person.

  • In the parable of the talents, Jesus invites us to see the destructive and dishonest truth of greed—and the truth of abundant grace.

  • The odd nature of this parable invites us to dig deeper, not into what we think it says, but into what we already know about Jesus’s mission.

  • We are participating in the reimagining of sainthood and of our place in the world. And yet, the reason behind it remains the same.

  • There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.

  • In our rush to live in a just world, we may find ourselves preventing the very means of making things just — that we are called to this.